Re: [PATCH] irqdomain: remove the confused log

[Huang Shijie <shijie.huang@arm.com>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 09:34:00PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, Huang Shijie wrote:
> 
> > When the dynamic debug is enabled for irq domain, the kernel will print out:
> >   ------------------------------------------------------
> >     irqdomain:__irq_domain_add: irq: Added domain (null)
> >   ------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > It does not print out the irq domain's name, since the @domain->name is NULL.
> > Keep the log here just makes people nervous.
> 
> Well, it might be NULL in your case, but there are enough cases where
> its not NULL and the output valuable. 
In which case ?

The domain is allocated by kzalloc_node(), so @domain->name is NULL in the function.
The @domain->name is set in other function, such as irq_domain_associate().

> 
> 
> Aside of that I don't understand what's making one nervous
> here. People who enable that debug stuff should know that this can be
> NULL and just deal with it. If they get nervous about it they probably
> should not try to debug that code in the first place.
okay.

thanks
Huang Shijie